Well today is Legomaniac's birthday so what's he getting? Legos, of course. He's due home any minute after having gone to Narnia with Dad (a surprise he WASN'T expecting). If we've timed it all right, the Pizza Hut driver will be here right at the same time -- I love it when all things come together!
Today we started winding down our castle/medieval unit. Finished El Cid -- have I mentioned lately how much I loved this book -- and read a couple of fairy tales. Legomaniac reminded me that we own a perfect book for this unit The Barefoot Book of Knights -- duh! I'd bought it for him last year for his birthday! [I really need to find a way to catalog what we've got so we don't order duplicates and we don't "forget" when we own perfect books!] We'll finish off the week with castle type crafts -- building castles, narrating our own fairy tales, and other projects are on the agenda.
We're almost done with Farmer Giles of Ham -- which is also a wonderful story.
The only problem with winding down units is that I'm already contemplating our next study -- we're going to be Alaska-bound for the Iditarod project and we'll do a short unit next week for Mozart's 250th birthday -- with lots of memories of Austria and eating Mozartkugeln....
More castle book reviews tomorrow.....
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